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# Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro High Memory and HPC team

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $165,200.0 - $223,600.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, BIOS, C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Computer Programming, Databases, Software Design Patterns, Firmware, Hypervisor, Python (Programming Language), Linux Kernel, Lua (Scripting Language), Oracle (Applications), SAP (Applications), Software Engineering, SQL Databases, High Performance Computing, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/34A5E824151542618CEA30385E66C9DF/job/

## About the Role

* 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
 * 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
 * Experience programming with at least one software programming language, * 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
 * Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

## Description

The Nitro High Memory and HPC team owns the purpose built platform development for the High performance computing workloads and database workloads like SAP, Oracle and SQL with tens of terra-byte of memories. Team interfaces directly with system BIOS for bare-metal instances and drives critical system interactions within the Nitro Hypervisor and across EC2 control-plane services. We need engineers with the dive-deep and ownership to work across domains (such as PC peripheral firmware or Linux Kernel internals) to deliver features and new instance types for our customers. Work is typically done in C/C++ or Rust with supporting script and tests in Python and Lua.


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